Quotes About Tradition

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.